Adobe Announces Discontinuation of 'Muse' Website Building Software

And that’s why you never use any of Adobe’s fringe apps.

Great :( Now I am going to have to pay someone like square space a shed load of money and have a generic cookie cutter website. I really enjoy using muse. Are they at least going to make it free?

Oh, you put stock in Adobe... the company that shutdown;

1. GoLive Systems (CyberStudio)
2. Macromedia software after they bought them out;

* Macromedia Action!
* Macromedia Aftershock
* Macromedia Authorware
* Macromedia Central (replaced by AIR)
* Macromedia FreeHand
* Macromedia HomeSite
* Macromedia MediaMaker
* Macromedia SoundEdit 16

The very company that has added just minor features to photo editing software, nearly zero features to their illustrator software, no major updates to video or post, publishing haha they will be closing down InDesign within the next 5 years... yet wants to charge you $600 PER YEAR to maintain usage of their software. You're surprised!? Seriously??

However, for $469 you can FOREVER OWN CorelDraw (granted it's windows only) or as a PhotoChop replacement purchase Pixelmator Pro, Affinity Photo, Acor, GIMP for under $75 and forever own them!

This is also why people, companies and design firms support WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento, etc... so that some company can't turn around and pull the carpet from underneath them and say, "haha, sucker! We got your money, all these years and now you have NOTHING! Oh but here, a replacement that doesn't actually work as a replacement but it's yours to use, so long as you continue paying us."

You could have purchased and owned the software and your "system" so you would payout $5,000 all in for computers, software, etc but could to this very day, use the same setup for publishing... No no no, let's pay Adobe $600/year for less privilege of using software they don't do any major updates or create any major new software, but have ZERO issues on pulling the carpet from underneath you.

This isn't the first or the last time that Adobe will be doing this! So anyone invested in their "cloud" software be forewarned... Your favorite software could be next!

It joined the iWeb club

Great :( Now I am going to have to pay someone like square space a shed load of money and have a generic cookie cutter website. I really enjoy using muse. Are they at least going to make it free?

Flashback! I still remember using Adobe PageMill in circa 1997 on my grape iMac G3 (333MHz! ), playing around with building my first websites just to learn the product had been discontinued. While befriending with the idea of switching to GoLive or Dreamweaver I realized the web would probably become too complex to be handled on a WYSIWYG editor and decided to learn to code. Looking back today, not the dumbest of my life's decisions. ;)

This is not the first time Adobe has yanked a design oriented application for website development.

Adobe allowed GoLive to wither and die on the vine years ago. Could it be that Adobe developers could not keep up or evolve GoLive to CSS, Web 2.0, etc...

Maybe Adobe wants to take the simple out of website design.

How is it that the Macintosh excelled in desktop publishing and page layout yet decades later the Mac seems to lack a robust WYSIWYG website development tool.

For those who had the opportunity to use NeXTSTEP remember how smooth and buttery display postscript was. It was a true WYSIWYG work environment. Even the simplest of drawing programs were masters of drag n’ drop layout on that platform.

Check out Flux from
http://www.theescapers.com/
Maybe it will help fill in some of the missing pieces.